Kei Satō
Harakiri
as MasakazuDown-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi....
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The Perfect Education
as LawyerSchoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her...
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The Return of Godzilla
as Chief Editor GondoAfter a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than...
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Kwaidan
as Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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Onibaba
as HachiWhile her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai...
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The Sword of Doom
as Kamo SerizawaRyunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate...
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Godzilla 1985
as Chief Editor GondoOriginally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily...
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Azumi
as Tenkai NankôbôIn war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Shinjô IttôheiKaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his...
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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
as Kazutaka OkadaKaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated...
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Death by Hanging
as Prison wardenA Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the...
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Taboo
as Narrator (voice)Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young...
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Station
as uncreditedA detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in...
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Irezumi
as Hatamoto SerizawaA mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's...
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Yakuza Ladies
as Hitoshi AwazuWhile her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s...
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Kuroneko
as RaikoIn the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time...
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Pitfall
as ReporterA man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a...
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The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
as Police ChiefA lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time...
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Dead Angle
as uncreditedElite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the...
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The Beast to Die
as EndoA policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi,...
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Yakuza Graveyard
as Teramitsu AbaraA police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in...
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Cruel Story of Youth
as Akira MatsukoA budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for...
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Pleasures of the Flesh
as Police inspectorA corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase...
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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
as uncreditedOn a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of...
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Good-for-Nothing
as uncreditedYoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz,...
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The Man Who Stole the Sun
as Dr. IchikawaA high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is...
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Ronin-gai
as IseyaNear the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
as Boss GonzoZatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no...
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
as SekinoThe three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to...
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
as HimselfIn Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at...
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The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo
as Police InspectorArrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ōkubo remembers his past and ends...
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
as Shobei HamajimaAgainst the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as OtaguroIn the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of...
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Samurai Spy
as Takanosuke NojiriYears of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke...
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Night and Fog in Japan
as SakamakiUninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other...
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The Wicked Reporter 2: The Rebirth of Horserace Betting
as uncreditedThe continuing adventures of Matsuzaki (Eiji Okuda), a racing tipster for a sports paper. In...
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Flower and Dragon
as uncreditedKingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
as DetectiveA story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of...
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The Tattooed Hitman
as Yukio YamajiThe most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...
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A Story from Echigo
as uncreditedA sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his...
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The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
as ShimizuA seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by...
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The Sun's Burial
as Sakaguchi, doctorIn Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution,...
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The Christian Revolt
as uncreditedIn the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against...
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Day Dream
as DentistLoosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a...
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Naked Ambition
as uncreditedWicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by...
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
as OtokoA sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe...
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Sword Devil
as Secretery KanbeHanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick...
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Violence at Noon
as Eisuke OyamadaTwo young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a...
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The Ceremony
as Sakurada Kazuomi, GrandfatherOshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses...
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Appassionata
as uncreditedThis story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of...
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The Killing Game
as Shoichi KatsudaThe second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has...
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Captive's Island
as uncreditedSeeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he...
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
as uncreditedIn turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as...
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Evil Spirits of Japan
as Murase / OchiaiMurase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student...
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
as uncreditedAsian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
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Drunkard's Paradise
as uncreditedA father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving...
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The Execution Game
as uncreditedThe third movie in Tôru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious...
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as MagistrateZatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as Saburobei KonoeAfter a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...
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League of Gangsters
as TakamotoA yakuza man is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about...
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My Way
as Koide, Chief of PoliceBased on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve...
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Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
as uncreditedIn the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of...
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Last Friends
as uncreditedFollowing the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII....
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Band of Ninja
as Sakagami ShuzenA young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an...
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The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
as uncreditedThe Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might...
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Dear My Love
as uncreditedToo shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses...
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The Imperial Navy
as uncreditedA lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of...
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Bitter End of a Sweet Night
as uncreditedAn opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to...
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Roadside Stone
as ShogoThe Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
as uncreditedMichio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a...
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Eleven Samurai
as Secretary MizumoThe lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic...
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Chase That Man
as uncreditedThe story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
as Y Chong - iruThree students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a...
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Inn of Evil
as YoheiThe story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly...
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Choji Snack Bar
as YoshinoEiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for...
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Demon Spies
as uncreditedDeep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training...
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Duel of Blood and Sand
as KatsumakiFrustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving...
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Conflagration
as Director FukamiGlobal South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up...
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Shimane Prison Riot
as Prison GuardJapan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites...
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The Inheritance
as CopOn his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among...
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Shingo's Ten Duels
as Inoue Kawachi-no-kamiThe classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he...
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Golden Partners
as OhkawaA motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's...
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Clouds at Sunset
as uncreditedA Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start...
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Secret High School Girl: After School Activity
as uncreditedA banker and a high school girl start a brothel in the snowy countryside of Hokuriko.
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The White Tiger Battalion
as uncreditedThe Byakkotai was part of Aizu’s four-unit military, set up in the domain’s drive to finalize...
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Target
as Ichiro HamadaTwo killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.
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Lost Love
as NogamiAt a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent...
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Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves
as uncreditedThe sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He...
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Lone Rebel
as uncreditedNomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive,...
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Kachô Shima Kôsaku
as uncreditedBased on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane
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High Seas Hijack
as T.V. Director FukamiTerrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
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Dear Summer Sister
as Shinkô KuniyoshiSunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because...
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Homicide
as Asaichi IsobeThis film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
as uncreditedThree stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman...
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Hymn to a Tired Man
as SuzukiZensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
as SekinoAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...
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Volunteering for Villainy
as IwaiTwo outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
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Young Boss
as IzoAfter a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over...
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The Third Ninja
as uncreditedThree Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.
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Cross-Currents
as uncreditedA ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager...
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Sasuke and His Comedians
as uncreditedOsaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan...
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Glorious Fights
as Yuzo GondoA young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor....
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I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
as NakajimaOn the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the...
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The Whispering of the Gods
as Father TogawaRou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods...
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The Revolt
as Narrator (voice)When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being...
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Surgical Designs in Flames
as uncreditedA story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a...
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The Ninja Hunt
as uncreditedFour ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the...
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Erotic Liaisons
as NemotoA low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two...
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Let Him Rest in Peace
as Daishi ShimoyamaA man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young...
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Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82
as Gorô Onodera , Military CommentatorMika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an...
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Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
as Kinjiro TakeuchiEight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan...
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Devil's Temple
as PriestAn abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a...
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Epitaph to My Love
as Shinji TsudaIshihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an...
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Women and Miso Soup
as uncreditedTemari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.
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Your Life
as uncreditedA moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
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Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
as tyobei(Izuya)An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they...
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The Flower and the Dragon
as uncreditedA story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman...
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Human
as HachizoThe ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four...
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Kyoto Assassin
as uncreditedA dark tale of murder and revenge set in old Kyoto.
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Prayer Beads
as (segment "Echoes")This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are...
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The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
as uncreditedWhen the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the...
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The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman
as uncreditedIn the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei...
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Life of Hishakaku 3
as uncreditedThird part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
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Incidental Murders
as Ieraishan TatsuThe daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the...
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Dioxin from Fish!
as uncreditedA black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.
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Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
as uncreditedA drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake.
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Neo Faust
as Dr. FaustShort anime adaption of the Osamu Tezuka manga Neo Faust.
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Wakasama samurai torimonochō o keshō kumo
as uncreditedMovie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda
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Tabaruzaka
as uncreditedKnown as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a...
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The Paper Crane
as uncreditedA wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from...
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Bullet Wound
as uncreditedYuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between...
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Expelled from the Kanto Mob
as uncreditedIn the late Taisho era. Umeshima Jinbei, the president of the Kanto Umeshima Kai, divided the...
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Akizakura - Cosmos
as uncreditedA touching drama about human life and love A 24-hour probation has been given to a man who...
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Assignment Cloud
as NishidaA sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the...
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Tokyo Trial
as NarratorOne of the major documentaries on a specific chapter in modern Japanese history, this look at...
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The Great Villains
as Ichiro YasuiPsychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.
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Mother
as Dr. KoiguchiA divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life...
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They Were Eleven
as uncreditedAn NHK adaptation of the famous manga by Moto Hagio.
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Tokyo Bay
as TakeyamaAn investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets...
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Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy
as uncreditedThe crescent shaped scar on his forehead is a license given him by the Shogun to kill anyone he...
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Where did Sharaku go?
as Tōshūsai SharakuWriter Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his...
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The Hopi Prophecy
as Narrator (voice)This film describes how the Hopi and Navajo tribes in the southwestern United States have...
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The Curse of the Ghost
as IyemonAbout 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon...
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Professional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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Chotchan
as 北山俊道The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother.
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Kusa Moeru
as Hiki YoshikazuThe story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.
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Lone Wolf and Cub
as Retsudo YagyuOgami Itto is a master swordsman who holds a position of high power in the Tokugawa Shogunate....
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Taikouki
as Akechi MitsuhideBased on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period...
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Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
as Mashita NagamoriThe 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of...
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Nemuri Kyoshiro
as uncreditedStarting out in Edo, as Kyoshiro travels west toward Kyoto, he encounters some of the most...
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The Water Margin
as Kao ChiuThe Water Margin is a Japanese television series based on Water Margin, one of the Four Great...
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Rice Curry
as uncreditedSet in the majestic Canadian wilderness, the drama depicts the adolescence and love of three...
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Ningen no Shōmei
as uncreditedTV series produced by MBS and TOEI, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Seiichi...
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Byakkotai
as Tanaka TosaByakkotai was part of Aizu's four-unit military, set up in the domain's drive to finalize its...
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水曜ドラマスペシャル
as uncredited“Monday Drama Special” (Getsuyou Drama Special) is a long-running drama that aired on TBS every...
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Wave in Mind
as uncreditedThe wife of a lawyer and her twice-divorced sister-in-law scheme to break up her brother's...
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Precious Moments
as uncreditedThe drama depicts the daily lives of three women of the marriageable age who are desperately...
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Jūkyūsai
as uncreditedDaisuke dropped out of high school, and his motorcycle was the only thing that helped him cope...
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Kokugo Gannen
as uncreditedSet in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was...
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The Trading Company
as Shigeru YasudaAn economic drama depicting the struggle and collapse of a Japanese general trading company. The...
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